Description

Come share your experiences, stories, questions, and what you have learned in a safe, non-commercial environment. We seek to understand the state-of-the market, understand what companies have done that has or has not worked, documenting questions that MESA and the community can help answer. Overall, the goal is to accelerate each participant’s learning and progress toward Smart Manufacturing. 

Topic: Value in the Face of Change: Why Cultivate an Ecosystem and How?

The business value must be clear for any initiative, investment, or program to gain and keep traction. Manufacturing’s top trends all point to the fact that even when data is flowing internally, some of the top issues require visibility, collaboration, and trust among trading partners as well. Join us to discuss what’s at stake, why it’s urgent now, and what you are seeing. Our topics may include:

• Top industry trends and pressures that no company can control without effective partnering: Inflation, skilled labor shortages geopolitical volatility, supply chain disruptions, and sustainability regulations and expectations.
• How can you quantify the potential benefits of making the right information available in the right context for internal disciplines and partners to take effective action?
• The changing face of value networks – supply, demand, manufacturing networks all changing to meet pressures – with all of that, how can you build trust and visibility across trading partners?
• Can AI help to close the loops and gaps across the product lifecycle, value network, and through innovation cycles?
• How can partners ensure their investments pay off and produce value for all parties involved? Shared cost, risk, and reward.

Please bring your questions, ideas, and experiences.

Agenda: 

• Thanks to our Sponsor(s) 
• Facilitator introduction 
• Community & Group overview – why participate and what to expect 
• Smart Manufacturing Paradigm 
• Thanks to our Sponsor(s) 
• Summary of last meeting 
• Today's subject 
• Wrap up 
• Next meeting 
• How to keep the conversation going 
• Thanks

The Community meets every two weeks via virtual facilitated meetings. The Community is a benefit of MESA membership. Members automatically receive the Zoom link/invitation. Not a member? Join today! 

Learn more about MESA's Smart Manufacturing Community Groups.